Climate & Environment
Ana often works in the Amazon rainforest, investigating the impacts of illegal deforestation, mining, logging and cattle ranching. She has written about the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities, environmental crime in protected areas and community solutions that could help avert climate catastrophe. She also has extensive experience investigating environmental destruction in global commodity supply chains.
A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink (October 2023, The New York Times)
The rainforest holds a fifth of the world’s fresh water, but deforestation, dwindling rain and unrelenting heat are sucking it dry.
A Lake Turned to a Hot ‘Soup.’ Then the River Dolphins Died. (October 2023, The New York Times)
The carcasses of at least 125 Amazon river dolphins have been found floating or beached after temperatures in Lake Tefé, Brazil, reached a staggering 39.1 degrees Celsius.
For Indigenous defenders of Brazil’s rainforests, ‘Lula is our only hope’ (December, 2022, The Los Angeles Times)
Newly elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pledged to halt the destruction of the Amazon, fuelling hopes at home and abroad that he may be able to avert a climate crisis.
Is kicking out illegal miners enough to save Brazil’s Amazon? (April 2023, The Christian Science Monitor)
Brazil’s president is doubling down on protecting the Amazon – crucial for combatting global warming. But policing illegal activities may not be enough.
In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve. (December 2022, Mongabay)
The Apyterewa Indigenous Territory has been under federal protection since 2007, but in recent years has become one of the most deforested reserves in Brazil.
Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital. (January 2023, Mongabay)
Forest destruction has ravaged Triunfo do Xingu, a reserve earmarked for sustainable use that has nonetheless become one of the most deforested slices of the Brazilian Amazon.
‘In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities. (January 2022, Mongabay)
A village on the banks of Brazil’s Negro River is running 132 solar panels as part of a project aimed at bringing clean energy and economic opportunity to remote villages in the Amazon.
‘Brazilian ‘wonder berry’ offers farmers and the Amazon a future. (December 2021, The Christian Science Monitor)
Açai is offering farmers in the Amazon a more sustainable way to survive. But, as droughts and floods become more common, those growing this "wonder berry" worry about the future.
Indigenous lands under siege as buffalo frenzy grips the Amazon. (November 2021, Mongabay)
In the Brazilian Amazon, buffalo ranchers are encroaching into protected areas belonging to the Mura Indigenous people, polluting their rivers and illegally turning forest into pasture.
‘Saving the Amazon, one wood-carved spoon at a time. (November 2021, The Christian Science Monitor)
Pledges at global conferences such as COP26 are all well and good. But ground-level action, like this community venture in a village deep in the Amazon, is key to halting deforestation.
‘Will Brazil really save the Amazon? (November 2021, BBC Future)
A village on the banks of Brazil’s Negro River is running 132 solar panels as part of a project aimed at bringing clean energy and economic opportunity to remote villages in the Amazon.